As academic dean, I was part of the program at Paducah Community College oof
the University of Kentucky. During that tenure we began to implement a
teaching demonstration unit in the interview process. Candidates invited to
the campus are asked to either submit a video tape of a teaching segmetn or
present one to the faculty while on site. [At that time we also required all
faculty to video tape one class during the semester and to review their
performance with peers. The presentation could be offered as a part of their
performamce criteria if they wished, but was not mandatory.] The teaching
demonstration for all is no longer used, a mistake in my opinion.
IMHO you could be missing better teaches by mandating previous experience.
There are natural teachers but most have to practice their craft. I'll ask
around and get back to you.
John
tch-econ@elon.edu wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Based partly on my email exchange with Mark at Glendale College, what I
> forwarded to my dept. chair was the following preliminary criteria (to be
> edited and modified), to determine teaching equivalency:
>
> 1. Applicant should have at least one year of recent full time or several
> years of recent part time instruction at the community college (or higher)
> level, in macro, micro and introductory economics.
>
> 2. Applicant should list all relevant teaching experience providing a
> detailed description of duties performed. These should include (but not be
> limited to) areas of specialized skills (such as web application,
> demonstrated use of computer / video use, Economics CD usage), knowledge
and
> abilities to be considered in determining equivalency.
>
> 3. Applicant should list all relevant non-teaching experience providing a
> detailed description of duties performed. These would cover (but not be
> limited to) areas of research, publications, seminars, professional
> performance, exhibition, honors/awards, etc.
>
> We figured this would perhaps place the high-school teachers and the TA's
> Mark mentioned outside the boundary of requirements, but now we face another
> different issue.
>
> That issue is now we are excluding Economists who never did teach, but for
> example, went to work at a private institution (say at Bank of America, or
> the World Bank), and who otherwise might be qualified to teach in the sense
> they possess real world and state of the art technical expertise. (Whether
> that person would chose to teach is a separate matter, we just dont want to
> make the domain mutually exclusive).
>
> Could I pick your brains to inquire whether you or anyone you know of have
> come across how to deal with this?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Shafin
>
>
>
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